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If you’ve been feverishly searching for an iPad 2 without any success, things might get better in the next couple of weeks. I was in a Boston-area Apple store yesterday and, as is my custom, decided to ask one of the employees if they had any iPad 2s in stock.

He, like so many before him, looked at me as if I had three heads before …

Will we see a new iPhone in June or will Apple take a breather this summer?

The current crop of iPhone 5 rumors currently peg Apple’s next mobile device for a June launch or a September-or-later launch, depending whom you ask. New iPhones have traditionally been launched in June at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, but rumors …

A long-overdue overhaul to Apple’s iPhone voice commands may arrive with the next version of iOS, at least according to the rumor mill.

Nearly two years have passed since Apple introduced voice commands for the iPhone, allowing users to place calls and play music by holding the iPhone’s home button and speaking. But next to Android’s …

A music industry veteran claims that Apple is pushing hard to launch a digital music locker service in April. This service would allow iTunes users to store their music online and access it from any compatible device.

The report comes from Wayne Rosso, the former president of Grokster and record label consultant. Citing anonymous …

Apple’s modest foray into the living room could get a lot more serious if the company expands its AirPlay service to televisions.

Currently, AirPlay only supports streaming audio for third-party devices. This allows users to play their iTunes libraries through stereo systems from partnering companies, such as Bowers & Wilkins and …

What’s in a leaked iPhone 5 case? Mostly an iPhone 4, if the scuttlebutt’s true.

Consider this a rumor wrapped in a screenshot (see above) tucked inside a rather boring-looking (if colorific) iPhone hard case, but it sounds like Apple’s putative iPhone update this year may arrive sans the sort of speculative redesign bells and …

I’m not really buying this whole story, but apparently a Chinese gadget blog got its hands on “mold engineering drawings” of the next iPhone. Why are these supposed drawings floating around? To “be used by case designers to create plastic, TPU, aluminum, silicone and leather cases,” of course.

Can you hear that? It’s the sound of the rumor mill moving from one Apple product to the next.

With the launch of Apple’s iPad 2 a day away, speculation now turns to the iPhone 5 — or whatever it will be called. According to Boy Genius Report, the next iPhone will run on the same A5 chip that powers the latest iPad. The rumor is …